Prince of darkness
Subtitle: the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire
By: Shane White
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781250070562
Subjects: Race relations; Finance; Millionaires; African American capitalists and financiers; Social conditions; African Americans; Biography; History
Description: "A prominent historian brings to life the story of a man who defied every convention of his time by becoming Wall Street's first black millionaire in pre-Civil War New York, marrying a white woman, owning railroad stock on trains he was not legally allowed to ride and outsmarting his contemporaries,"--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Invisible man; title: Haiti, 1828; title: Moving to New York; title: The great fire, 1835; title: Business; title: Jim Crow New York; title: Real estate; title: Bankruptcy; title: Starting over; title: The trial; title: Wall Street; title: Living with Jim Crow; title: Making money; title: To the draft riots; title: Epilogue: a lion in winter.